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Text Effect that looks like text is being handwritten

Is there a js out there that makes text look like it is being handwritten by appearing pixel by pixel or something? I have seen this in action but it was a frames site and I coudln't get into it to see how they did it by source. Maybe this is a flash effect?

there are many other ways to show an eye catching effect, I doubt it can be easily done. Unless you have your own library to render text in html using javascript pixel by pixel. Most closely I can imagine is using overlay mask and let the text appear in horizontally fade in.

I did a JavaScript/CSS slideshow years ago that performed image transitions a few pixels at a time. It used a stack of absolutely-positioned DIVs with their clip properties set so as to create a grid when viewed from the top of the stack. The thing was painfully slow in Netscape 6 PR1 (which was new at the time - we were still pulling our hair out over 4.77) due to the huge amount of DHTML manipulation required. It worked quite well in IE5 though. The same could be done with text inside the DIVs instead of images.

Is there a js out there that makes text look like it is being handwritten by appearing pixel by pixel or something? I have seen this in action but it was a frames site and I coudln't get into it to see how they did it by source. Maybe this is a flash effect?

Cheers
Andrea

Presumably you mean for just one line, or at least in just one area of a document.
I would do it with a matrix of one-pixel divs over which the mouse would be used to create/edit the 'pen' movements, with the co-ordinates of the used 'pixels' being recorded and stored in sequence.
Upon completion, generate the array code and paste it into the script that generates the writing, which is done simply by setting in sequence the visibility of the divs at the stored co-ordinates.
It's perfectly feasible, but only a mug||sucker would do it for nothing.

Which is why I am asking what the poster is actually trying to achieve. If it is pre-defined text then an animated GIF is very easy to do as the method required is "static" ... if it is text that a user enters into a box (or is queried from a database) then the method needs to be "dynamic".